when 77 met 32 [ishman ff] [shubish]

2025

"hi." Suhani said that once everyone was seated, She looked at Ishan with admiration in her eyes. Of course, everyone knew that she admired him, because who else would go through so much trouble for someone they hadn't even met? "Hello," Ishan replied with a smile.

"Fan moment?" Shubman asked, bumping his shoulder with Suhani's. "Are you jealous?" she retorted back. "oh please.." But before Shubman could complete his oh-so-witty statement, Virat spoke, cutting through it. "Can you fight some other day?" "We aren't fighting; Shubman has just gone insane." She replied.

"What are we here for?" Ishan said he was trying to save Shubman's ass from more burns. "I actually wanted our first meeting to be different than this, but it's okay; this works too. I want to tell you that I love you; I really, really do, and I would love to work with you someday." "fan moment." Rishabh said, looking at Shubman, who just shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly in a 'told ya' manner.

"I would love to work with you too." Ishan said, smiling at her. "Can we please come back on the topic at hand?" abhishek asked. "Yeah, Ishan, did Aditi tell you everything?" Rohit asked, bringing the topic back. "What is everything?" he asked, making the team start narrating the entirety of the incident.

"Rishabh is next?" he asked, looking horrified. "yes. He has to be next." Suhani replied. "So, can you save him? Do you know who it is?" he asked her. "I don't really know who it is, but I'll try my best to find out before he can harm him. don't worry." She said.

"But to do that, I would need your help, Ishan." Tell me everything you know. Tell me everything you know about the letters and the way he approached you. Of all the other people we spoke with, none of them received any warning letters prior to the threat itself. It was only you who received them. If we can just understand why it was just you, it would open new doors for us."

"No one else received the warning letters?" Ishan asked more of himself than anyone else. Then he looked at Suhani again. "But why?" he said. "We don't know the answer to that, Ishan. We need your help to know why." she said, sounding quite calm.

"Do you remember any mark or any significance in those letters? Anything at all?" Hardik asked him. "I don't really remember." He replied. "Why did you not tell me about those letters?" Shubman questioned Ishan, looking betrayed. "I didn't think they were genuine. I just thought that it was a prank."

"You might've thought of it as a prank in the beginning, but who would continue to think like that after receiving so many of them?" Shubman said shocking Ishan. "How do you know I got more of them? I just told Harry Bhaiya about one." "You got one every Saturday for 3 months straight. I have brains; you know, it's not that hard."

"How?" Ishan asked again. "I remember your mood dropping every week at that time. I tried asking you if something was wrong, but you refused to answer. When Harry Bhai told me about that incident, I instantly remembered those days. And then, after three months, you got that threat letter, because that was the time when everything started to go downhill."

Ishan looked shocked at that. Shubman knew a lot more than he was letting out. He could read Ishan like an open book; of course, he knew. "that's right. I received them for three months. After that, I received a threat call, and then I was benched from the squad. At first, I didn't understand, but now I do." He said.

"the letters. What was written in them? How did you start getting those? Do you still have them?" virat asked. "It was during the IPL. I remember chilling in my room when I saw it. The letter was sitting on the coffee table, and I had no visitors that day. Apart from the team members and my family members, only Shubman was allowed in my room without prior notice." He said he was looking at Shubman.

"I took the letter and opened it. That was the first one. Someone was asking me to beware. The letter talked about certain dangers. Nothing was too clear. I ignored the first one. Then I got second. Then the third one. It was fucking up with my brain. I couldn't concentrate on anything at all. It was during Mi vs. Gt that I told Harry Bhaiya about it. It wasn't the first one."

"I was definitely doubting people, but who would do such a thing? And there was nothing happening, just the letters. Then, after 3 months, I got a threat letter. It said that I needed to pick up a call. And the person who called me threatened my position on the team and asked me to give up on cricket. I didn't."

"My family members were photographed. They were being tailed, I realized. I got scared, but I couldn't just leave Cricket like that. And then the World Cup squad got decided, and I was benched. After the threat letters, it didn't feel as bad as it was supposed to feel."

"Getting benched was still better than leaving cricket completely. During the World Cup, the letters stopped completely, and so did the calls." There was a chill in the environment. "I thought that everything that was supposed to happen happened and that it was all over."

"But then, at the end of the World Cup, I got a letter saying that I needed to take a leave from the upcoming series. The letter said that I would be benched, but I needed to give in a statement that said that this was taking a mental toll on me and I needed some time away from it all."

"I, like any other time, did not take that letter very seriously. But then the squad was announced, and I was benched. It made me think about how this person knew that I would be benched this time too. I got scared, and as if on cue, another letter came in. It had pictures of my nephew."

"freshly clicked pictures. He was asleep, probably drugged. I called my family and asked about his whereabouts, but they said that he was in school. He wasn't, and I had no courage to tell them that he wasn't. I had to choose. This was an open threat. So, I wrote that letter and asked for some peacetime from the management."

"They cooked things, like me being lazy and ungrateful and stuff, and fed the media. I was starting to get trolled everywhere. It was their strategy. I had become a public figure, and they couldn't have sacked me without a reason. So, this played into that reason. They sidelined me from the squad completely after that."

"I thought that I wouldn't get to play the upcoming IPL either. But I did. There was no reason for me to not play. The letters and the threat calls increased reasonably at that time. I couldn't focus on my game anymore. I had played a really bad season. Then they dropped me from the BCCI central contract. I knew this would happen sooner or later, but it still hurt."

"That day, I went to the management to talk about this. I told them everything. I told them about the letters and the threats. I told them about how my family was being targeted and that I was made to give them that appeal of mental strain. I told them all of this in the hopes of an investigation, because there was no way an insider wasn't involved."

"I could see it in their eyes. Most of them knew I was telling the truth. They had most likely received letters about the script of'sacking ishan kishan'; they knew what I was talking about, but they didn't speak. Some of them accused me of lying. They told me that I just wanted my mistakes to be shouldered by someone else, hence the drama."

"They told me that I was doing this in hopes of getting the contract again, to gain public attention again. It was a warning. They were warning me against going public with it. If I did reveal this, they would paint me out as a bad guy, and I would not be able to live at all. with or without cricket."

"All the people sitting in that room knew that I was right. I knew that I was right, but I couldn't do anything about it. I had never felt that helpless. I had to choose again. to give up on cricket or to give up on life all together. So, I stormed out. No one could help me but me. I was not going to give up that easily." ishan said, his eyes determined.

(There is a chapter after this one also. Please read that too. Thank you.)